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CentreStack for Service Providers is a brandable, multi-tenant sync and share solution for new revenue stream
CentreStack for Service Providers is a completely on-premise, multi-tenant sync and share platform that works with local storage or private cloud storage.
It brings recurring revenue stream for service provider, while at the same time, enhance the service providers' value-add for the storage
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A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority disciplinary panel on Thursday upheld Charles Schwab's decision to include a class-action waiver in its customer arbitration agreements. The waiver requires that all disputes between Schwab and its customers be arbitrated, and waives each party's right to bring class-action claims against the other.
However, the panel ordered Schwab to take corrective action and ordered Schwab to pay a fine of $500,000 for "attempting to limit the powers of FINRA arbitrators to consolidate individual claims in arbitration."
The FINRA panel stated that it had dismissed two of three causes in a February 2012 complaint against Charles Schwab & Co. regarding Schwab asking its customers to waive their rights to bring class actions against the firm.
The panel concluded that "the amended language used in Schwab's customer agreements to prohibit participation in judicial class actions does violate FINRA rules, but that FINRA may not enforce those rules because they are in conflict with the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)."
Schwab issued a statement the same day saying that "Schwab is pleased with the panel's decision, which ruled in the company's favor on the central class action waiver issue."
The statement went on to say that Schwab "believes customers are better served through the existing FINRA arbitration process and that class-action lawsuits are a cumbersome and less effective means of resolving disputes—for both parties. Based on the panel's favorable ruling, all customer claims must be heard in arbitration through the well-established and highly regarded FINRA arbitration forum, where matters are adjudicated more quickly and efficiently than in court proceedings."
FINRA Dispute Resolution, Schwab continued, "runs one of the country's largest alternate dispute resolution forums and has effective programs for both large and small cases. Filing fees vary with the size of claims and may be waived in the case of hardship. For these reasons, Schwab believes that a class-action waiver is in the best interests of both its customers and its shareholders."
But in the third cause of action, the FINRA panel found that Schwab violated FINRA rules "by attempting to limit the powers of FINRA arbitrators to consolidate individual claims in arbitration. The panel further concluded that the FAA does not bar enforcement of FINRA's rules regarding the powers of arbitrators, because the FAA does not dictate how an arbitration forum should be governed and operated, or prohibit the consolidation of individual claims."
Thus, the panel ordered Schwab to take corrective action, including removing "violative language," and imposed a fine of $500,000.
In its complaint, FINRA explains that its Enforcement Department had charged Schwab with "violating FINRA rules concerning language or conditions that firms may place in customer agreements when Schwab amended its customer account agreement to include a provision requiring customers to waive their rights to bring or participate in class actions against the firm." The agreement also included a provision requiring customers to agree that arbitrators in arbitration proceedings would not have the authority to consolidate more than one party's claims.
FINRA's complaint charged that in October 2011, Schwab "amended its customer account agreement to include a provision requiring customers to waive their rights to bring or participate in class actions against the firm." Schwab sent the amended agreements to nearly 7 million customers, FINRA said in its original complaint.
The Schwab waiver was also sent to clients of registered investment advisors that custody assets with Schwab.
Unless the hearing panel's decision is appealed to FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) or is called for review by the NAC, FINRA says the hearing panel's decision becomes final after 45 days.


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By Steve Kastenbaum, CNN
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(CNN) - One house at a time. That's the only way for insurance adjusters to assess the damage from Superstorm Sandy.
With over 300,000 homes damaged or destroyed in New York alone, the work will take many months, maybe a year.
[:40] "The hard part is you want to get everybody like today. You want to make sure that everybody gets taken care of as soon as possible. You want to be there to just let them talk to you," said Larry Steika, a member of Allstate's disaster response team.
On this day, Steika was inside John Kelly's home in Breezy Point, a beach front community in New York City hit hard by the storm. Kelly has already started making repairs, but he needs a check from Allstate to complete the major work.
[2:58] "We'd like to have a point where this is what I need done in the house to get it back safely and pre-storm, here's what I need to do on my end and here's what insurance will do on their end and then we'll know."
Steika sometimes becomes emotional as he sifts through what's left of a family's lifetime in their home.
[5:16] "You walk through an area like we're in now, I mean how do you not start crying when you see what's going on? You know….. and you realize all the families that were here."
He'll have a long time to think about those families. Steika said he could be doing this work until next Christmas.
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Traveling lecture series named for Anita Hill starts on Jan. 30
Brandeis will host first 'Anita Hill Annual Lecture on Gender Justice' Juhu Thukral
The feminist activist group Soapbox Inc. that sponsored last year's "Anita Hill 20 Years Later" conference will now sponsor a traveling series, the "Anita Hill Annual Lecture on Gender Justice," inspired by that conference.
Soapbox Inc. works primarily with women's studies programs at universities across the United States and with community foundations, activist groups and corporations.
The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the Office of the President, Women's and Gender Studies, African and Afro-American Studies and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, will on Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. host the first lecture at Brandeis, where Hill serves as senior advisor to the provost and professor of social policy, law and women's studies. She has received awards for dedicating her life, in the wake of Justice Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, to encouraging those who have suffered harassment and discrimination to speak out. In 2011, she was honored with the "Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later" conference, held at Hunter College.
It will be held at a different college or university each year.
Juhu Thukral was chosen as the inaugural speaker from a strong and diverse pool of applicants. She'll present "Gender. Sex. Money. New Frontiers in the Fight for Sexual Rights," in Rapaporte Treasure Hall. A reception will follow.
Thukral, the director of law and advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda, has worked to protect the human rights of women for over 20 years. She was the founder and director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, where she continues to act as senior adviser and a founding steering committee member of the NY Anti-Trafficking Network. She is a passionate advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women in the areas of sexual health and rights, gender-based violence, economic security and criminal justice. Thukral has repeatedly shown courage and leadership in defending the human rights of women engaged as sex workers.
The goal of the series is to expand the public discourse and debate on issues of gender justice and make it a more comprehensive, national conversation.
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A Weeknight Wine Pick from Aragona's Jackson Rohrbaugh
Just your typical expat Spanish rocket scientist turned winemaker, producing some delicious Washington wines from Iberian grapes.
Wherein we ask local wine notables to make our weeknight drinking decisions for us.
A native of the Northwest, Jackson Rohrbaugh discovered his passion for wine during a year abroad in Italy. He has worked in restaurants throughout his adult life and finds Seattle's food scene to be one of the most professional and exciting. Formerly a sommelier and lead server at Canlis, Rohrbaugh now holds the very European-sounding title of vice-director of wine and service at Aragona.
And when he's not working? "A perfect day would be coffee at Slate, lunch at Salumi, and a walk up the waterfront to Zig Zag for a cocktail before hopping a cab or walking to Mamnoon for dinner."
So Jackson, what should I drink tonight?
2011 Idilico Tempranillo. I'm excited about the wines coming from Pomum Cellars' side project, Idilico. Here in Washington, we have an expat Spanish rocket scientist turned winemaker producing some delicious wines from Iberian grapes. Idilico's Tempranillo comes from the Columbia Valley, but many of their vineyards are in the new Ancient Lakes AVA, where the summer heat is tame enough to produce balanced wines. Like Central Spain, Eastern Washington is dry with a large diurnal shift—cool nights and hot days. This brings the flavor and color into focus in both the grapes and the finished wine.
This Tempranillo is a pleasant wine for early spring, when the weather is still cold. We need fresh, medium-bodied reds without too much extra weight, and this fits the bill. It shows classic tempranillo characteristics of sour cherry, leather, spice, and sweet tobacco, and is an absolute steal for $20. This is great with roast chicken and root vegetables, grilled pork chops, or pan-cooked rice dishes.
Find It: Wine World and Spirits, Pike and Western, Esquin (by special order)
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Fruit-topped Spongecake Récipé (yes, I made this)
I baked this cake several times, surprised even myself – it's like programming, but you eat it.
Adapted from Eat Now, Cry Later (follow her YouTube channel!), with KitchenAid timings, and a bit of organization into "components". Easy for engineers to follow. Follow from top to bottom.
This is a big cake, it can feed 10 people I reckon. Which is why, through a happy accident, in a future post I will show how I've hacked this recipé into what I think is a better implementation (re-factor, anyone?) that is more adaptable to party size.
* 8 egg yolks
* 1 cup caster sugar
- mix until yellow and ribbony
- whisk KitchenAid #4 for 30 seconds
- spatula the sides in
- whisk for another 10 seconds
* 0.5 cup vegetable oil
* 2 tablespoon orange juice
* 1.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 0.75 tablespoon water
* 1 cup + 2 tablespoon cake flour (sift 3 times)
* 0.5 teaspoon salt
* 10 egg whites
* 0.75 teaspoon cream of tartar
- mix until you see "stiff" peaks
- drop in cream of tartar when whisking
- use teaspoon to dip in, flip the spoon, when the mixture doesn't drop from the spoon it's ready
- whisk KitchenAid #4 for 4.5 min
- then whisk KitchenAid #6 for 3 min
* 1 litre heavy whipping cream
* 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
* 0.75 cup sugar
- whisk at KitchenAid #6 until consistent
- put in fridge for later
* Big bowl
* Mix #1
* Mix #2
* Mix #3
* Mix #4
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Put Mix #1 into the big bowl
- Put Mix #2 into the big bowl
- Put Mix #3 slowly mixed into the big bowl
- Slowly fold in bit by bit Mix #4 using a big hand whisker (don't overfold, keep airy)
- Line bottom of cake pan with parchment paper
- Pour into cake pan, with ungreased sides (do not scrape, let it flow in)
- Put in oven for 30 mins
- Check that it is done by poking a stick in it, it shouldn't be sticky – poke not only in the outer rim, but also the middle
- When cooked, overturn cake pan on cooling grille, cool for 2 hours
FRUIT #1 (Middle of the Cake)
* 2 kiwis
* 0.5 can of sliced peaches
* 5 strawberries
- chop everything up (diced)
FRUIT #2 (Top of the Cake)
* 3 kiwis
* 0.5 can of sliced peaches
* 5 strawberries
* A handful of sliced almonds or crushed walnuts
- slice the kiwis into rounds
- slice the strawberries
- use a knife on the inner edge of the pan to separate the cake from the cake pan
- release the latch on the cake pan, remove the cake
- using a cake leveller, level the top of the cake
- using the cake leveller again, slice the cake in half
- line a whole cake tray with parchment paper (cut into 4 equal pieces for easy removal later)
- put the bottom half of the cake onto the cake tray (on top of the parchment paper)
- take some of Mix #5 and mix in with Fruit #1, have a balanced amount between the whipped cream and fruit
- spread the mixture on the bottom half of the cake, make sure to frost not to the edges but only close to it
- put the top half of the cake on top of the bottom half
- take some of Mix #5 and spread all over the top of the cake and sides, repeat if necessary
- use a glass of lukewarm water to dip your spreader in occasionally
- it's ok if the sides still show some of the cake, this will be hidden with the almonds or walnuts later
- once you have spread the frosting all over, it's time to arrange the fruit
- starting with a circular pattern, arrange Fruit #2 all over the top of the cake (or whatever way!)
- spread the sliced almonds or crushed walnuts all over the sides of the cake (you don't need to completely cover it)
- finally, remove the parchment paper from the bottom of the cake
Screens for iOS error - Connection Timeout on Authenticating
Screens by Edovia has a rather annoying problem in OS X Lion 10.7.4 and 10.8 (to be fair, it's Apple's fault here). Basically a system update (Apple Remote Desktop Update 3.6) causes this problem, and downgrading to ARD 3.5.3 will fix it.
There is a workaround specified in this thread which specifies this:
- In "System Preferences -> Sharing", turn off "Screen Sharing"
- Enable "Remote Management"
- In the "Remote Management -> Options…", check the checkboxes "Observe" then "Control"
Change to the maximum screen resolution (at 1.0 scale) on the Retina Macbook Pro (Preference Pane)
On the new Retina Macbook Pro (2012), in "System Preferences -> Display" it will not let you set your display to the available maximum resolution of 2880x1800 pixels (1.0 scale). The "default" resolution is 1440x900 points at 2.0 scale (2880x800 pixels). Mainly I suppose it is because everything is too small if you run at 1.0 scale.
But you can set it anyway, if you like, through this screenresolution command-line utility that was originally created by John Ford (license: GPLv2.0) or with my fork that adds PreferencePane support. Note that the preference pane assumes that you only have one retina display currently (which is of course true at this time).
One quirk I have noticed is, if you set the resolution to 2880x1800 and close the display, on wakeup, it will revert to 1440x900 (essentially it is still 2880x1800 pixels, 1440x900 points at 2.0 scale). Download the command line utility and preference pane binaries here or compile it from the source.
The screenshot of what the preference pane looks like is below, not very pretty, but serviceable:


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Cuccinelli to allies: 'Go to jail' over contraception access
Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) told supporters this week that they should "defy and or break the law" in order to resist the Affordable Care Act. Of course, the opinions of some strange former congressman, booted out of Congress after one term, probably don't carry much weight.
How about a man who may be elected governor of Virginia later this year?
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the presumptive GOP gubernatorial nominee and a rising national figure on the right, told an Iowa-based radio show Wednesday night that opponents of a federal mandate for contraception coverage should be willing to "go to jail" to fight the law.
Cuccinelli, who also addressed the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner last spring, told conservative radio host Steve Deace that he strongly supports the lawsuit by Hobby Lobby Stores against the Affordable Care Act's requirements for contraception coverage.
In the interview, Cuccinelli shared an exchange he had with his own Roman Catholic bishop who told him, "Well, you know I told a group I'm ready to go to jail" to fight contraception access. Cuccinelli replied, "Bishop, don't take this personally: You need to go to jail."
The right-wing state A.G. added, "What I mean by that is, people need to see it play out all the way to its logical conclusion."
Keep in mind, Cuccinelli isn't saying he's prepared to go to jail; he's just saying people who think the way he does should be prepared to go to jail.
Here's hoping his allies don't take this advice.
In case anyone's forgotten, the policy Cuccinelli finds so outrageous is actually pretty routine, and hardly worth risking incarceration over.
Under federal law, insurance companies must now make preventive care available without copays. It was up to the Obama administration to establish what counts as "preventive care," and officials chose a variety of common-sense policies, including mammograms, HIV screenings, immunizations, and contraception.
No one will be required to have any of these services; they'll simply be available. In terms of finances, the Obama administration exempts churches and other houses of worship from financing care they may find objectionable, and the White House also created a compromise in which religiously-affiliated employers wouldn't have to pay for contraception directly.
That's it. That's the entirety of the "controversy."
For the far-right Virginian, this policy is so excessive, people should simply ignore the law and invite punishment.
The 2012 elections offered a variety of lessons, but one of them seemed to be that the American mainstream wasn't comfortable with the Republicans' bizarre preoccupation with reproductive health, most notably, contraception access. Apparently, some missed the message.


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Natural brass beads & findings:
CL45- 24x 11mm Hook
EP15- 1.5" Eye Pin
H10- 67mm Creative Hoop
JR30- 5.25mm Jump Ring
JR40- 7.25mm Jump Ring
JRD10- 9mm Etched Jump Ring
P265- 41 x 18mm Soaring Sparrow
Tools & Supplies:
Round nose pliers
Chain nose pliers or flat nose pliers
Flush wire cutters
Beading awl
TSPW20- 150 Feet 24 Gauge Vintaj Bronze Wire
Other materials:
6mm Swarovski pearls- light blue (example here shows Blue Aragonite)
Swarovski 4mm bicone crystals - padparadscha
Swarovski 4mm bicone crystals - silk (example in this picture uses rose quartz 4mm irregular heishi)
7mm Rose Quartz barrels
16 x 13mm Cherry Quartz faceted oval
STEP by STEPS
Step 1: Create a beaded nest.
* Inspired by "Sparrow Nests" by Monica Dennis in April 2009 Bead Trends.
A. Cut a 24" length of Vintaj Bronze wire. String three 6mm Swarovski lt. blue pearls, positioning them in the center of the wire.
B. Twist the wire around the three beads so the they form a triangle.
C. Begin wrapping one side of the wire around the outside of the three beads. Wrap the beads leaving approximately 4" of wire at the end. Wrap the other side of the wire leaving approximately 6" of wire.
D. Thread one of the loose ends of wire up and under the nest of wire, wrapping around the outside coils 4-5 times. Repeat with the second loose end of wire, wrapping around 4-5 times in two places as shown. Trim excess wire. Set nest aside.
Step 2: Wire wrap creative hoop & hook.
* Inspired by "Purple Aventurine & Pearl" by Michelle Hamby in April 2009 Bead Trends.
A. Using your hands adjust the width of the creative hoop by pulling the ends away from each other, leaving approximately 5" between looped ends.
B. Cut a 2" length of 24 gauge Vintaj Bronze wire.
C. Anchor one end of the wire to the end of the creative hoop (near the loop) by wrapping it three times.
D. String a 4mm silk bicone crystal and wrap the wire around the creative hoop three times.
E. Repeat step 2-D eleven times, adding a 4mm silk bicone crystal and alternating a 4mm padparadscha crystal after every third silk crystal along the creative hoop.
F. Secure the end of the wire onto the creative hoop by wrapping the wire three times. Trim excess wire.
G. Embellish hook using the same wire wrap technique as the creative hoop alternating 4mm silk crystals and 4mm padparadscha crystals.
Step 3: Create your bead links.
A. String a 7mm rose quartz gemstone to a 1.5" eye pin. Create a wrapped loop on straight end of wire.
B. Repeat step 3-A four times, ending up with a total of four 7mm rose quartz gemstones and one 16 x 13mm cherry quartz faceted oval.
C. Connect bead links using 5.25mm jump rings, placing the cherry quartz in the center of the rose quartz gemstones.
Step 4: Assemble necklace.
A. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to the bird next through a single section of wire and through the front or head end of soaring sparrow's loop. Attach a 7.25mm jump ring opposite of the first jump ring, through the opening of the coiled wire section between two beads and through the back or tail end of soaring sparrow's loop. Use a beading awl if you need to widen the loop.
B. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to the front or head end of soaring sparrow's loop and through the loop of the creative hoop closest to the wrapped beads.
C. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to the opposite end of the creative hoop and through a wrapped loop of a 7mm rose quartz gemstone section.
D. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to the loop end of the embellished hook.
E. Attach a 9mm etched jump ring to the back or tail end of the soaring sparrow's loop to catch the hook as the necklace clasp.
Your necklace is complete, Enjoy!
Designer: Jess Italia Lincoln, with modifications by Vicki Lapp


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When 61-year-old Mike Richardson moved to Albemarle county from Britain, one of the things he missed most from overseas was, ironically, his American car, a 1983 Cadillac Seville.
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From a distance, a trained eye can tell the age of a soccer team solely by the flocking patterns of its players. That is, the younger players are often grouped close together, chasing the ball, while the older, more experienced players opt for less bunched-up formations and choose more strategic positions on the field. I started playing soccer somewhere in between the two, still a few years before the concept of having a specific position transpired.
I played in a "boy's" soccer league for about a decade and later branched out to basketball for two seasons. I even pursued my swimming lessons throughout all of the available swimming lesson levels and endured the physically taxing process of passing lifeguard and swim instructor courses. I was very athletic in the first two thirds of my life. But I shied away from these heavily gendered spaces half-way through puberty, probably because, deep-down, I knew I wasn't a boy.
I came out to myself as transgender at 19. I was on a lifeguarding shift when I devised the idea that, if bisexuals exist, then surely "bigender" people must as well. After work, I rushed home and looked up the term I had created. It existed.
Even now, I recall things from my childhood that make so much sense which the understanding that I exist on the feminine side of the gender spectrum. This is most striking when I look back at my time in sports.
The first few years were fun, focusing on the sports themselves, will little social subtext. There were a few girls in my boys' soccer league, as this was pre-puberty and was a non-issue. As we aged and started to feel the pressures to conform to gendered expectations, I felt increasingly alienated. Just as the girls left the boys' soccer leagues and joined the girls', or quit altogether, the display of anything outside of masculinity was similarly vanishing.
It wasn't that coaches called us "ladies" as some sort of degrading motivation, but it was implied in the atmosphere created by the players. It didn't help that the more popular players were the aggressive types placed in forward positions. Naturally, the forward players scored the most goals (I didn't score much when placed in defense) and earned most praise, despite their frequency of yellow and red cards. The implicit message was that to become a better player, one had to assume the traditionally masculine traits. I stayed on defense and midfield.
In soccer, I arrived in uniform, ready to play. There was very little changing in front of my teammates. For swimming, however, I undressed in the men's change room. Men's change rooms are open-concept, to say the least; the changing area and showers have no stalls or dividers.
Even dressed in swimming trunks, most of my body was exposed when I was at the pool. Only now does that knowledge that I'm trans contextualize the inexplicable embarrassment and disgust I had with my body. Before swimming sessions, I would shaved my chest with new, stolen razors to hide the reality that my body was becoming hirsute. I wouldn't even buy the razors because I didn't want anyone to know I had body hair that needed shaving. Puberty was an unforgivingly public experience in a swimsuit.
While I loved soccer, my reasons to quit were nuanced. If I had continued in either league, I would have been joining adult leagues and the social aspect of that was not appealing. My teammates were people whom I largely couldn't understand. They were becoming men, buying into gender roles, either because they fit them, or because they thought they should.
I grew apart from my athletic peers x2500 and from organized sports. Joining a gender-neutral or female league never occurred to me, as I didn't know I was trans. At that time, I didn't even know it was possible to be genderqueer or gender non-binary.
I haven't played soccer or basketball since I quit both leagues. Sometimes I think about joining a soccer team, but I'm undecided. Similarly, I haven't gone swimming in almost two years. Ever since I started hormone replacement therapy, public swimming pools haven't been an option I want to explore.
This all said, now that I know who I am and what I will need if I return to sports, I might explore my former athleticism. I hear there's a queer soccer group and trans-only swim nights in Toronto. I'm not sure if I will join, but at least there are some viable options. After all, I might not be able to resist the poetry of getting a sports do-over, now that I'm going through my second puberty.
RJ Vandrish is a genderqueer writer, musician and performance artist based in Toronto. Their work includes: as a musician (Lez Gauches and The Masses); as an actor/playwright/comedian (stage name: Rory Jade Grey); and as writer (The Spill Magazine, Lifestyler, and of course, Shameless).


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Here is the Concept Art challenge, titled Futuristic Resort. Following is the task:
The Task : We would like to see a Concept Art image that depicts a futuristic resort; it can be created from uncommon and unusual objects, as seen from the banner image, where spoons were used.
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1. Each contestant must create a Work In Progress (WIP) Thread/Topic in this forum, in order to participate in the contest.
2. The Subject of the WIP Thread/Topic must be like this : Futuristic Resort - (your name); for example, if your name is Masahiro Sawada, then you must write, Futuristic Resort - Masahiro Sawada.
3. The width of the WIP Concept Art images must be 750 pixels.
4. The final Concept Art must be atleast 1920 pixels x 1080 pixels in resolution.
Final Entry Thread : A Final Entry Thread will be posted on April 20th, 2014 wherein the contestants will be required to post their final Concept Art entries in 1920 px X 1080 px (minimum) resolution.
Deadline : April 25th, 2014 (11:59 PM - Pacific Standard Time).
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FREDERIC ST-ARNAUD : Frederic St-Arnaud is a visual effect artist with 15 years of experience, focusing on high-end photo-realistic Digital Matte-Painting, set extension and concept art in the film industry. St-Arnaud has contributed to many feature films, commercials television and a TV series. His film credits include The Amazing Spider-Man, Mirror Mirror, Immortals, Red Tails, Gulliver's Travels, Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter, Jack the Giant Killer, Terminator Salvation, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Race, Babel, Silent Hill, Sin City, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids 2 & 3, The Golden Compass which won the best visual effects Academy Awards and more...!
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RONN BROWN : Ronn Brown is a veteran digital media educator, art director and Matte-Painting Supervisor, and a member of the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Counsel appointed by the State of Florida's Governor in 2011. Also, he is a member of the Visual Effects Society (VES), an adjunct faculty for Digital Domain Institute, full time faculty of visual effects and animation at Miami International University of Art & Design, and was the Graduate Director of Computer Arts and Animation at the Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco, CA. Over his 20-year career, Ronn has also held artist and supervisory positions in matte painting and art direction at Sony Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Rhythm & Hues, Framestore, Weta Digital, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and other top studios, working on films including Kung Fu Panda, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Men in Black, The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Wars : Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, and many more...! He holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and is in the Masters of Visual Arts program at the Miami International University of Art & Design.
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LUBOS GERARDO SURZIN : Lubos Gerardo Surzin is a digital artist, matte-painter, concept artist and art director with over 8 years of experience in the CG industry. He also does traditional landscape oil paintings. The projects in which he has worked on includes Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time, Clash of the Titans, Australia, Alice in Wonderland, Darkest Hour, Hotel Lux, Sucker Punch, Legend of the Guardians, Season of the Witch and many more...! He has also worked on high profile commercial work on Lamborghini and TV series Tin Man, Sindbad and much more...!
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JORIK DOZY : Jorik Dozy is an international CG Certificate student from the Netherlands. He works as a Digital Matte-Painter at the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He is also the Founder and the Director of "The Luminarium", an international art collective. Jorik is an alumni of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and was a Matte-Painter at the Gnomon Studios. His feature film credits include "The Avengers", "Mission : Impossible - Ghost Protocol", "Transformers : Dark of the Moon", "Green Lantern", "Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides" and "I Am Number Four". He has also worked on the TV series, "Fringe" as a Concept Artist.
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DAVID EDWARDS : David Edwards is a self taught digital artist with 13 years experience working in feature film and TV with credits that include; Avatar, Clash of the Titans, Ender's Game, Doctor Who and other titles. David currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.
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The authors use 2014–2018 data from the American Community Survey to answer two questions: To what extent is military service associated with higher rates of earning a bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field (vs. a non-STEM field)? To what extent is this relationship gendered? The findings suggest that military service is associated with higher odds of completing a STEM degree and that this association is particularly strong for female veterans.
In this article, we propose a campus-based pedagogy to teach sociology. We offer the example of a project designed to critically assess university Title IX policy and situate it within existing sociological research on gender-based inequalities and violence. Students engage in sociological research regarding issues such as sexual harassment and assault, intimate partner violence, consent, and rape culture, among others, and develop a tool to create greater awareness among the student body of university policy in these areas.
Research on college admissions shows that all students tend to benefit from overmatching, but high-status students are most likely to be overmatched, and low-status students are most likely to be undermatched. This study examines whether mismatching takes place when students are sorted into classrooms in middle school. Given prior research on effectively maintained inequality, we theorize that classroom sorting acts as an opportunity for privileged parents to obtain a qualitative advantage for their children.
Influential reports about the "learning crisis" in the global South generally pay insufficient attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between family socioeconomic status and learning outcomes in 10 francophone African countries using data from the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems, a standardized assessment of pupils' mathematics and reading competence at the end of primary school. We start by showing that learning outcomes among grade 6 pupils are both poor and highly stratified.
This visualization represents the structure of mathematics course opportunities as seen in the progress through middle and high school for one cohort of students in Texas. Trajectories are consistent with a tournament mobility regime in which there are repeated opportunities to fall behind but almost none to catch up. Pathways are also characterized by staggered starts, with differences in when students begin the mathematics sequence that have consequences for ultimate attainment.
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PLAINVIEW - The fall looks promising at Wayland Baptist University as enrollment numbers increased 7.5 percent system wide to 6,211 students on 13 campuses.
On the home campus in Plainview, enrollment is up 3.6 percent as the final head count included 1,036 students. Semester credit hours increased 7 percent to a record number of 12,736. The additional numbers include a 13 percent increase in the freshman class and a 7 percent increase in the retention rate, a number that has Vice President of Enrollment Management Dr. Claude Lusk excited about the upcoming year.
"The increase in retention is a campus-wide success. The significant increase is a positive sign and means we are going in the right direction," said Lusk who also pointed out that the number of academic scholars among incoming freshmen has increased as well.
The increases in the freshman class and retention rates also pose an interesting, yet welcomed, problem for the university. Wayland has 485 students living in the dorms, up 8 percent from last year's 448. The men's dorms are filled to capacity with the women's dorms, including the new Davis Hall dormitory, 86 percent full. Ten years ago the university had only 279 students living on campus.
"It's a good problem to have and to look into," Lusk said. "We have already begun the process of looking into our options as far as housing is concerned."


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I wash my hands more frequently these days, not as a sign of OCD, but just from common sense. Familiar bacteria, ones that some of us carry and that our school-age kids may encounter several times a year, can rarely cause horrendous, life-threatening problems. WebMD has a short review of one of these diseases, one that physicians call necrotizing fasciitis (NF), but most non-medical folk know of as "Flesh-eating Strep."
I had read about this complication of the same bacteria that can cause strep throat, but prior to moving to Fort Collins in 1999, had never known of someone who developed it. Then, shortly after arriving here we joined the Newcomers Club. We met lots of people who came to the "Choice City" after retiring and heard of one who subsequently lost a spouse to the disease.
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NF isn't the only major complication caused by Group A streptococci (GAS). There's a toxin-caused deadly illness called toxic shock syndrome. This has been around in the medical literature for about three decades. I became aware of it in December 1980 when the New England Journal of Medicine published an article describing 38 cases of this dire syndrome where patients, usually women who were menstruating and using tampons, developed high fever, low blood pressure and multi-organ failure, as well as sloughing off the skin of their palms and soles. The causative agent often was staph and blood cultures were often positive for staphylococci.
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